Sit around and talk: Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Wednesday October 26, 2011, 7:30 pm
501 Schermerhorn
1190 Amsterdam Avenue

Tomorrow at Columbia, academics will be talking uptown about occupants downtown. I'll be attending and reporting back. Ironically enough, the event is RSVP. Far from apathy, Columbia students have questioned their part in the ows movement, for their university largely benefits from Wall Street. On the other end, OWS has us, educators and scholars, reflect on our practices and the end of our work. Occupants are shaking things all the way up the ivory tower.

my my metrocard

Jalopnik, the blog covering car culture owned by Gawker, is running stories on New York City's subway system. Keeping the myth of the Big Apple's mobile underbelly alive, tonight they reveal "14 of the juiciest and gruesome things we didn't know about running a New York City subway train."
A first-year MTA subway conductor has been anonymously answering questions about New York City's underground on reddit. If only they could also make intelligible service change announcements on weekends and late nights...

Rocking Mobility

Black Flag's Henry Rollins and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo on the future of mobility studies... literally. For more on rocking mobility, check the T2M Summer School Collaborative blog this weekend.

T2M Newsletter

The newsletter for the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) is published electronically three times a year.

The T2M Newsletter editorial team welcomes contributions that may be of interest to members. The deadline for the next two edition is 11 November 2011. The edition after that is 13 February 2012.

Please email your contribution to the new Editor, Etienne: newsletter AT t2m.org

Previous issues of the T2M newsletter can be found here: http://t2m.org/newsletter/

International Conference: A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees

International Conference: A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees

Date: Friday 10 February, 2012
Where: Melbourne, Australia

Info: http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/vmr/events

Have a good start!

Fantastic idea. Let's share concepts, programs and assessments.
Hans

CFP - Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations

Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations
Call for Papers 3rd Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference
February 10-11, 2012
Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies Keynote: Dr. Nayan Shah, Department of History, UC San Diego
Deadline: Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to transnationalasia@gmail.com by November 28, 2011

Contemporary figurations of the transnational often invoke a language of flows and frictions to describe the increasingly ambiguous role of nation-states and their boundaries in the movement of goods, persons, and ideas. Without abandoning this view altogether, this conference invites participants to move beyond it in order to investigate the dynamics which have led to its promulgation--both as dominant metaphor in the thought of many scholars studying Asia and as lived analytic for individuals making sense of their vertiginous contemporaries and their legacies.

See more here

Please circulate freely.
Rice University
Chao Center for Asian Studies
6100 Main StreetHouston, Texas
http://asia.rice.edu/mailto:chaoctr@rice.edu

Please send abstracts by November 28, 2011 to: transnationalasia@gmail.com -- Jessica Lockrem
Graduate Student Department of Anthropology Rice University MS-20 P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251 jessica.m.lockrem@rice.edu j.lockrem@gmail.com
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Hey world

So the mobilities/passenger blog begins. Let me just throw this link at you, a session in Glasgow, History and Social Sciences Conference about urban mobility and other amenities
Click here or on the logo

, Mikkel